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Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry

2004-05-01

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Michael Bulmer. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2003. 376 pp. $45.00. I was delighted when I was asked to review this book, as I have quoted Galton often, whenever I give a talk on twins in fact. And I have also used the picture of this great man that adorns the cover of this most interesting volume. The book is superbly researched by another, more modern, biometrician, Michael Bulmer, who, in 1970, wro...

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Literature Corpus work: 603a71df-b575-5929-bd0b-c63ab246514e
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esh039

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